Standout from the crowd with UK work experience.
Our international virtual internship programme (iVIP) provides a unique opportunity for international students to acquire hands-on work experience within a company based in the United Kingdom (UK).
Improve your career prospects and demonstrate your new skills to potential future employers.
As well as activating your Business English skills.
Improve your career prospects and demonstrate your new skills to potential future employers.
As well as activating your Business English skills.
Gain flexible hands-on work experience.
- that fits around your existing work, studies and family commitments
- without expensive flights and local accommodation
- without the need for a working visa
- that provides training in effective remote working
- with a reduced carbon footprint
Add concrete experience to your cv.
Real learning comes from putting your knowledge into practice in a real-life company, in a real-life project with real-life, tangible business outcomes.
Providing real life examples of your work is bound to impress future employers and accelerate your career.
Providing real life examples of your work is bound to impress future employers and accelerate your career.
Develop valuable remote working skills.
The virtual internship will be carried out remotely from the comfort of your home, school or local café – wherever you can have internet access!
The demand for remote working skills is growing, from both large and small companies. There are also huge opportunities to set up as a freelancer and work from anywhere in the world.
Our virtual internships provide an opportunity to gain experience of some of the most popular tools such as:
The demand for remote working skills is growing, from both large and small companies. There are also huge opportunities to set up as a freelancer and work from anywhere in the world.
Our virtual internships provide an opportunity to gain experience of some of the most popular tools such as:
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Develop skills for the 21st Century.
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A report from The World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified the core skills that students require for succeeding in the 21st Century: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/21st-century-skills-future-jobs-students/.
Our programmes aim to help students develop these essential skills through hands-on experience:
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And its good for the environment. |
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A return flight from Rio de Janeiro has an estimated carbon footprint of 1.60 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
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A return flight from Berlin to London has an estimated 304 kgs carbon emissions.
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You will be supported along the way.
 Bella Cranmore, Internship Mentor
Your dedicated Global Professionals Internship Mentor will look after you during the course of your internship.
Bella Cranmore has over 10 years experience of working in Digital Marketing Companies and Agencies. This includes being an Account Director at an international, multilingual search marketing agency specialising in SEO, PPC and Content Marketing, working with some of the best known brands in the UK and worldwide, as well as small and medium sized companies. You can find out more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bellacranmore She also has over 5 years experience of placing international students in internships in over 50 sectors. Bringing her experience of placing students in internships and in digital marketing, Bella will support you during your experience to ensure that you achieve as much as possible from the opportunity. |
Work with the best. |
Your virtual internship will be delivered by the team at Professionals UK.
Professionals UK is one of the world’s leading companies in providing ambitious internships for international students. Established in 2005, Professionals UK have provided internships for over 8,000 students in over 900 companies from over 30 countries. Professionals UK are a corporate member of English UK. |
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What our students say.
"The company is just amazing. All of my co-workers and bosses are reaaally friendly and help me with everything. They really try to involve me in as many projects as they can. Since my start I am doing a lot of different tasks, but they fit mostly in the fields design and marketing, just as I wanted."
Laura, Intern at Digital Marketing Agency, London